Date of Award
1-1-2011
Document Type
Campus Access Dissertation
Department
Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Sub-Department
Biostatistics
First Advisor
Bo Cai
Abstract
In longitudinal studies, a popular model is the linear mixed model that includes fixed effects and subject specific random effects. In many clinical trials and other medical and reliability studies, we can often obtain repeated measurements or longitudinal data that includes survival or time-to-event histories. Recently, methods for jointly modeling longitudinal and survival data have gained popularity in the statistical literature. In this dissertation, we consider the problem of variable selection in a joint modeling framework where longitudinal and survival data are modeled jointly. Dirichlet process priors are used to relax the parametric assumption of random effects, which has advantages of making the model more robust against possible misspecifications and allows the clustering of subjects. A fully Bayesian method for subset selection of fixed and random effects in joint models is proposed. Simulation examples and an application are used for method evaluation and illustration.
Rights
© 2011, Haikun Bao
Recommended Citation
Bao, H.(2011). Semiparametric Bayesian Joint Model With Variable Selection. (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.sc.edu/etd/541